Chapter 21

• Chloe stood by the window long after Kael had left the room. Her reflection stared back at her in the glass, eyes wide with disbelief. The memory of what had just happened replayed in her mind like a cruel joke, each detail sharper and more humiliating than the last.
• "I’m so stupid," she muttered under her breath, her hands balling into fists at her sides. "What was I even thinking?"
• She paced the room, her heart pounding with a mixture of embarrassment and frustration. How could she have let herself get so lost in the moment, so distracted by the way his lips moved, the way he looked at her? She had a plan—one she couldn’t afford to derail just because her emotions decided to take the reins.